The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has asked this Friday for the "only really useful vote" for the candidate for re-election as president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, in view of the Andalusian elections next May 17, considering that it is a suffrage that "is worth two": "so that Juanma has a stable majority and to change the Government of Spain".
During a rally in Almería, the leader of the 'popular' party has directed his message especially to the undecided in the final stretch of the Andalusian campaign. He has requested the support of both those who "did not vote in 2022" and those who "want a change in Spain", emphasizing that "by voting for the PP-A on Sunday, we are voting for a change in Spain".
In his speech, he has extended his call to the "angry socialists" and "ashamed" who consider that they "deserve a dignified Andalusia" and "a better Spain", as well as to those who did not support the PP in the previous regional elections.
"Juanma's track record is enough to give him a stable majority and María Jesús Montero's track record is enough for even the PSOE not to vote for her," Feijóo stated. Faced with the possibility that his party could achieve an absolute majority, which it narrowly missed in communities like Extremadura or Aragón, he has once again advocated for the "stability", "credibility", and "management" that, in his opinion, Moreno represents.
As he has defended, the current Andalusian president has a clear "project" for the community, while the rest of the political forces would have as their objective that "even if the PP wins, it does not have a stable majority" to prevent it from governing. "That is their project. Ours is to respect" the mandate of the ballot boxes, he pointed out.
Avoid "four years of penance"
The top leader of the PP has stressed that the last seats will be decided by "a handful of votes", which is why he has insisted that no one should "stay at home" if they want to avoid "four years of penance". "Elections are not won with feelings, they are won with votes," he stressed.
Feijóo has listed up to eight reasons to place Moreno back at the head of the Junta, including that Andalusia does not return "to the worst past in its history", which, as he has warned, the socialist candidate, María Jesús Montero, would embody.
"Today with Juanma there is decency", Feijóo has proclaimed, who has described his candidate as a "clean" person who shows "respect for the money of the Andalusians". In contrast, he has accused Montero of having tried to "look the other way with the ERE and Ábalos" and of having "brought out those convicted of corruption to ask for votes for the PSOE" during the campaign.
Likewise, he has rejected any formula that implies that Andalusia could be directed from a "Madrid office" or "subordinated to the interests of separatism". "Sánchez and Montero have made a tailor-made model for separatist politicians. I will make a tailor-made financing model for the needs of Spaniards", he has committed.
Campaigning "in private" until the last day
Feijóo has encouraged the party bases to continue "telling" the PP's project "not in public, but in private" to those who still doubt their vote, as he has conveyed to the militants who have filled the amphitheater of the Rambla de Almería.
The 'popular' leader has thanked the "work", the "effort" and the "enthusiasm" deployed by the organization in a campaign that he has described as "textbook" and which, in his opinion, must culminate at the polls with the revalidation of a "government of stability" in Andalusia.
"When one deserves a result, one should be confident of obtaining it, but not sure of achieving it", he has warned, trying to curb any overconfidence about the electoral outcome. He recalled that stable majorities are a 'rara avis' in Spanish and European politics and that, in the State of Autonomies, only "four" of the 17 communities have them. Therefore, he urged them to take advantage of the last hours to intensify the request for votes.
"The work is almost done, but what is decisive remains, which is the vote on Sunday", Feijóo has indicated, before warning that "there is no time to lose" because, "otherwise, we will lose it for four years".
The Galician leader has maintained that Andalusia "is playing what it will be in the year 2030" and, probably, "much more", since "what it will be in the fourth decade of the 21st century" is also at stake. "If it changes course", he has warned, "the ship loses its orientation, the ship loses its speed, the ship loses its project" and "it will not reach port".
Because "Almería counts"
The head of the PP list for Almería and provincial president of the party, Ramón Fernández-Pacheco, has acknowledged the work of the popular "dream team" during the campaign and has thanked the involvement of Núñez Feijóo, who has visited the province on two occasions in recent weeks because "Almería matters".
"That commitment that the next president of Spain has shown to our province, we, those present here and many others who are outside, will return it with a lot of work," affirmed Fernández-Pacheco, who assured that Almería "will be up to the task" to support his arrival at La Moncloa. "It is a matter of national emergency," he sentenced.
In this context, he has hurried the last hours of the campaign to ask for votes for Juanma Moreno, considering that "no one has as much at stake as the people of Almería" in these elections. He recalled that "no one punished the Socialist Party for 37 years as much as it punished us, the people of Almería" and that it has taken "generations and generations" to achieve a president like Moreno. "We cannot risk it," he emphasized.
Fernández-Pacheco has insisted that in these elections it is not decided "who will be the president" but "the type of government," for which he has called for sufficient support so that Moreno can "form a government as soon as possible" after May 17 and avoid the "paralysis" derived from prolonged negotiations like those in Extremadura or Castilla y León.
For her part, the mayor of Almería, María del Mar Vázquez, has defended that the current Andalusian Government "believes in Almería" and that, although "there are still many things to do," there is "an enormous difference" compared to previous stages thanks to the PP's "commitment" to the province.
The mayoress has called for massive participation at the polls, inviting to "fill the ballot boxes with hope" and to "tell all of Andalusia that we want to keep moving forward, that we do not want to take any steps back," convinced that President Moreno's project is "the only possible way to keep moving forward and to continue leading us on this path of growth that Andalusia has."